The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 20, 1931, Page 1

v THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, No. 5751. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1931. MANY DEATHS ARE REPORTED IN HEAT WAVE Drownings Are Mounting Up on Crowded Beach- es, Summer Resorts MISSISSIPPI VALLEY IS SEARED UNDER SUN Tornadic Winds Do Great Damage in Scattered Parts, Minnesota CHICAGO, I, June 20.— More than one dozen deaths from the heat have been re- ported and the toll of deaths from drowning is mounting; from packed beaches and' summer resorts. Moslems Win centuries in many bloody battles Wailing Wal -old Wlflihlblwi“ in Jerusalem, Palestine, fought over for between Jews and Moslems, has Rain and wind storms, breught some relief to sec- tions in the Middle West,' principally Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin but the rest of the Mississippi Valley from Ohio to Oklahoma is seared by temperatures ranging from ' 95 degrees to 100 degrees. | Tornadic winds struck scat- tered parts of Minnesota dur-| ing the night, causing wide-| spread property damage but’ no loss of life. | The Weather Bureau holds out little hope for relief over the week-end. Temperatures are 95 in Michigan where there were' numerous prostrations. ' The temperature in Ohio is from 92 to 100. Half a million persons jam- med the Leke Michigan and Chicago suburbs where a maximum temperature of 94 is registered. This is the hottest on record since 1872. PSR PHEI S NAUTILUS IV MORE DANGER Further Damage Done to Submarine on Ocean Trip to England ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, June 20.— The battered submegvine Nautilus has not yet seen the end of im- mediate difficulties. The battleship Wyoming, towing the submarine, informed the Navy Department, that heavy seas had stopped both vessels 240 miles from Queenstown, England, where the craft is being taken for repairs for previous damage. The message to the Navy Depart- ment said new trouble has been had with the compressors of the starboard engine. The periscope has also been damaged and one of the rings for towing, is gone. ‘The sea is extremely rough. ———————. IS DISCHARGED; | SHOOTS IT OUT SALINAS, Csl, June 20.—Police said that because W. F. Sechrest discharged Marshall Wood as man- ager of the Sechrest Lumber Com- pany, two men lay today in a hos- pital, perhaps mortally wounded. Wood admitted shooting his em- ployer and then himself. Sechrest was shot twice through! the lungs and once in the mouth and then left dying in a lumber: yard. | Following the shooting, Wood fled in Sechrest’s auto, stopped in front of his own home and shot himself over the héart, while his wife watched from a window, then drove off and was later found in the stalled car. —eeo—— Methods of teaching music in Towa’s rural schools will be demon- strated this summer at the Anglo- American music conference in Lau- sanne, Switzerland, I been finally awarded to the Moslems by formal decree of the Inter- national Arbitration Commission with the provision that Jews have access to it for religious ceremonies, The decree provides that while the religious shrine is the propert: barm Jews should they wish to do deyout Jews beating their breasts before the wall on a holy day. y of the Moslems, they must not penance there. This picture shows BIG QUESTION T0 WAIT UNTIL 1932 CAMPAIGN Study of Stabilizing Com- modity Dollar’s Purchas- ing Power Is Delayed By FRANK 1. WELLER (Associated Press Farm Editor) | # WASHINGTON, June 20.—While | President Hoover was said to have listened with interest to the Am- erican Farm Bureau Federation's request for = swady” of means for stabllizing the purchasing power of the dollar, little action was antici- pated before the 1932 campaign. ‘The question indirectly involves numerous political measures, pos- sibly revival of battle scarred silver issues and certainly the fact that money values will enter largely into the next Presidential cam- palgn. ¥ Parity of Exchange It is implied in the bureau’s re- quest that gold would be listed with 500 other commodities s stant. Commodity values- go up and down ordinarily under the assump- tion that supply and demand deter- mine prices. The bureau holds that prices are determined by the rate of exchange, or the relationship o!l the commodity dollar to the gold: dollar. { Stabilization f Stabilization would mean that the dollar earned by selling a com- modity always would bear the same relationship to the value of the gold dollar. ! When the gold dollar becomes dear, on account of gold scarcity or other reasons, it takes more com- modity dollars to buy a gold dollar. It is just a way of saying that it takes more of a commodity to be worth a dollar in gold. i Likewise, exchange requires less of a commodity when gold is more abundant and easier to get. No plan of stabilization is pro- 'posed by the bureau although it believes “the situation could be helped by proper handling of the discount and rediscount rates by the Federal Reserve Board.” P — e Man Converted : Into Human Torch { By Boiling Tar i VICTORIA, B. C, June 20.— { MRS. SEMPLE RETURNS Mrs. Robert Semple, who has been south for several months, re- ' turned to Juneau, a passenger aboard the Northland. ———— A cat belonging to F. L. Brad- CRANKS CAMERA WHILE BROWNIE REARS, GROWLS |Wife of Boston Banker Does Stunt While Hunt- ing in Alaska ‘KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 20.— While ‘her husband and guides stood by with guns.in hand ready for action in case the bear got a change of heart, Mrs. Oliver Wol- cott, wife of the Vice President of the First National Bank of Boston, stood 40 feét from an Alaskan brown bear, and cranked a motion picture camera. This was reported last nigbt when the party passed through here enroute home. Mrs. Wolcott said the hear rearad and growled, but did not" offer to come nearer. —————— i | NO WORD FROM | 0 that all would fluctuate together and the i parity of exchange would be con-, Airway Officials Are Not Worried; Out of Com- munication ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 20.— Officials of the Pacific Internation- al Airways, which is providing transportation for the Rev. Ber- nard B. Hubbard and party on the exploration trip of Aniakchak vol- cano, said they have not received @eports for nearly one week but are not uneasy. Pilot Blunt was ex- pected to be out of touch of com- munications for at least a week. The Rev. Hubbard, with a party of students, is exploring the cra‘er of the volcano. Pilot Blunt is believed waiting in nearby waters for their return as the plane is at their service for the present expedition. TAGOMA BOAT IN COLLISION TOKYO, June 20.—The Exchange Telegraphy Agency says the Am- erican freighter Bellingham and Japanese freighter Koyu Maru have collided in a fog near Ghoshi Point. The Japanese ship is reported sinking. The home port of the Bellingham is Tacoma, Washington. IS SLIGHTLY DAMAGED SEATTLE, June 20.—The freight- er Bellingham is commanded by Capt. W. R. Brust, of Seattle. She carries a crew of 35 officers and men all of Seattle or Tacoma. attle May 23 after loading at Puget Sound ports. According to advices she was !damaged slightly in the collision. ——————— A yleld of 761 pounds of seed cot- ton per acre was obtained at Tifton, of Money, Says A. P. Corporation Head “If the Alaska canner breaks even this year, he will be very |agreeably astonished.” That is the view voiced here today by Jack Alaska Pacific Salmon Corporation, making his first trip to Juneau this year. “Wa are entering the season under | the conviction it will cost us mon {I do not see any way in whi we can even swap dollars, and 1 we get out of the pack the fi we put into it .this saeson, it going .to astound every one of us,” he asserted. Moury Makes Trip troller for the firm. The latter the Pacific Coast Coal Company, and as auditor visited Juneau with his family in 1927. They arrived late Friday afternoon on the Donna C., company service boat, and Jleft for Port Althorp today. The Alaska Pacific canneries are employing all of the local seimers which have fished for them in the past, if they desire to accept em-+ ployment, Mr. Gilbert said. At the Rose Inlet plant, in the southern end of the Division, all of the Indian fishermen are working. At Kake, where the same prices were offered, the Indians refused to go out. The Port Althorp Indlans were glad to accept the prices offered and are fishing as usual . Prices Are Lower i “While it is true that we are not paying as high prices for fish as in the past few years, we.@ve paying every eent that the product will bear,” Mr. Gilbert said. “Prices for canned salmon are, in many instances, little more than 50 per cent of what we were recelving two years ago. Naturally, under such conditions, ¥ 1s impossible for us |to pay the same for fish that we paid when our product was bring~ ing good prices and the demand |was commensurate with the sup- ply.” Mr. Gilbert declined to comment on the current season’s pack pros- pects. “Anything in this connec- tion would ‘be merely speculative, and without weight. Like virtually every other industry, the salmon packing business is fighting its way out of one of the worst periods of depression i has ever experienced. Our operations, naturally, reflect that situation. Our company, and others engaged in the same indus- try, is doing everything it can to furnish what employment it can locally to the end that it may give some rellef here and prevent, if possible, the more serious aspects of depression in the Territory.” First Honor to Canadian, Flying Trip Lieut. Beardmere, First to Cross English Chan- nel, in Glider BOULOGNE SURMER, France, June 20—Lieut. Lissant Beardmore, Canadian inventor and opera sing- er, holds the distinction of being the first man to cross the English Channel in a glider. Lies.. Beardmore started at Lympne, England, went up to a height of 1,200 feet, gradually edged toward the sea, then sailed toward the French coast at a rate of 60 miles an hour and landed at St. Inglevert Airdrome, near Callais. Brazil Rent Law Brings Funds to Official Bank RIO DE JANEIRO, June 20.—The provisional government of Brazil has decreed that the three months' advance rent, which all tenants must pay, shall be deposited in a i The Bellingham sailed from Se- government operated savings bank. Hitherto the landlords have had the use of these funds which were legally demanded from renters of apartments, houses and business offices. ' ‘The tenant now gets four per cent . interest but the landlord is' ley of Weston, Tex., mothered two Ga., when fertilizer was used, where | protected by a certificate naming of her own kittens, three squirrels and a rabbit, 4 only 313 pounds had been grown before, him as payee should the tepant de- fault in rent, Gillbert, General Manager of the Mr. Gilbert was accompanied here | from Kake by Russell Moury, comp= was for many years associated with| justment of Personnel and Organization Due to a reorganization and re- adjustment of personnel in the Alaska Reglon, additions will be made some time during the present calendar year to the local head- quarters force of the United States Forest Service, it was announnsd today by C. H. Flory, Regional For- ester and ex-officio Commissioner for the Federal Department of Ag- riculture who returned this morn- ing from Ketchikan. The new assignments were work- ed out here recently in a confer- olence of Regional officers and dis- trict forestry men. No exact dates have been fixed for the changes which will be made as advantage- ous occasions arise. Zeller to Advance One of the major moves, will be the transfer of R. A. Zeller, Super- visor of Tongass National Forest, from Ketchikan to Juneau. This is in the nature of a promotion as he will be asigned to have control of all project work in both the Chugach and Tongass Forests. To replace him at Ketchikan, an ex- perienced forestry man will be sent there. In the future there will be no “forest supervisors” in Alas- ka. This title has been dropped by the organization. Supervisors will be replaced by “forest inspectors” who will make headquarters at Ketchikan, Petersburg and here. All authority will be centrally lo- cated here at Regional headquar- ters, eliminating a lot of lost mo- tion occasioned in the past by cor- respondence between districts. To Promote Efficiency “The entire purpose of our re- adjustment policy is to promote ef- ficlency. in the organization and thereby to render to the general public a better service,” Mr. Flory said. “We want to wipe out every bit of red tape we can; speed up our field work; and bring our fleld organization into. «irect contact with the public with which we have business relations. “To this end we are concentrat- ing our clerical and administrative operations in local headquarters. This means removal of certain rec- ords, clerks* and officers to Ju- neéau, and replacement of them by field men. This will permit us to utilize our appropriations to better advantage, build up real efficiency, eliminate duplications in office work, make our entire organization more elastic and make it more re- sponsive to public needs. Work Where Needed “It is our intention to0 have more men doing the essential, outdoor work, scaling logs, cruising timber, opening up new districts where mineralization occurs, building trails for prospectors and others, and performing other services of real value to the public, than was possible under our old system. “The' whole idea back of the new plan is to eut out lost motion. We have studied the situation care- fully for the past three years and have come to the conclusion that the national forests of Alaska can be best administered by dividing them into three major sections, placing a competent man at the head of each. “Each division head will have the same power and authority formerly possessed by the forest supervisors, and certain additional power.” Takes Nothing Away The move does not take any- thing away from Ketchikan, Mr. Flory said. It will make it pos- stble to concentrate field forces wherever they are needed, and al the time the need exists. Businss men there, when the new policy was explained to them by Mr. Flory, were almost a unit in expressing their aprpoval. - AP o AT Summer Will Begin Monday, Longest Day The Summer Solstice will occur Monday, June 22, at 28 minutes past midnight, Alaska Standard Time. At that hour the sun will reach its northernmost point for the present year, and then will begin the long six- months southward journey. Technically, therefore, Mon- day will be the first day of Summer. The sun will cross the equator south-bound Septem- ber 23 and the Winter Sols- tice: will take place Dzcem- ber 22. 2999000000 evee . . . . . ° . [ . . . . ° . . o e Ensign Horace Myers of Boise, chapel of the U. S. Naval Academy. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Avsoctatea Press Phote Idaho, and Mrs. Myers leaving the This was the first of several mar-. riages performed immediately after graduation exercises at the instl- tution. Mrs. Myers was formerly Louise Hines of St. Joseph, Mo. . MRS, WPHERSON WRANGLES WITH HER UNCLE SAM Government Claims L. A.| Evangelist Owes More | ncome Tax WASHINGTON, D. C, June 20. —A difference in opinion over in- come tax has brought Almee Sem- ple McPherson, Los Angeles evan- gelist, into legal conflict with the | Government. | The Internal Revenue Bureau has | notified her she owes the Govern- ment $21,339 on her income of 1926, ' 1927 and 1928. The Evangelist reported her total income for the three years as be- ing $37490 and the Government sald her income should have been $168,998. i Among item; ine Government contended should have been listed were $31,658 expended in 1926 and $0,523 in 1927 in an effort to pre-f vent Los Angeles County authori- ties indicting her. on a charge of ! conspiring with others to “obstruct due administration of the law.” That was in connection with her, celebrated disappearance in 1925 when she later said she had been kidnapped. She said the money spent in her defense was a. gift from the Temple and was not in- come. { TEA TRADESMAN VISITS JUNEAU A. Render, representing the Blue Ribbon Co., Ltd., with his head- quarters at Vancouver, B. C., has spent the past several days calling on Juneau merchants with profit-; able results. | Mr. Render will continue north to Whitehorse and then return di- rect to Vancouver. H. R. SHEPARD GOES TO SEATTLE MONDAY, On a vacation trip to Seattle, H.| STOCK PRICES SWING UPWARD _SHORT SESSION Week Closed Dullest in Years—Trading for Time Most Active NEW YORK, June 20.—The stock market today ended the dullest week in recent years with a violent upswing of prices, the impetis from the dullish awakening provided by President Hoover's announcement he is looking for steps to assist’ in the economic situation, particularly Germany. Prices surged up to more than ten points, several of the prin- cipal issues gaining 4 to 6. Trading for a time was the most active so far this month, the tape lagging a minute or two behind the transfers, The trading for the two hour ses- sion was 1,500,000 shares. The closing prices were near the days’ best as profit taking was late. Union Pacific and Atchison gain- ed about 10 points, New York Central gained 7 points and New Haven more than 5. Auburn fur- nished the extreme gain, up to 18 points and closed a little under the top. Steel and American Telephone and Telegraph gained as did Gen- eral Motors. Radio was up early to 2 points. . 54 | TODAY'S STOCK i | QUOTATIONS | . . NEW YORK, June 20—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 137%, American Can 105%, Anaconda Copper 28%, Beth- lehem Steel 447%, Fox Films 20%, General Motors 36%, International Harvester 41%, Kennecott 18%, Chlecker Cab 9%, 9%, 9%, Curtiss- ‘Wright 2%, Hudson ‘Bay 3%, Pack- ard Motors 7%, Standard Brands 17%, Standard Oil of California 36%, Standard Oil of New Jersey |37, Trans-America 7%, United Air-; craft 26%, U. 8. Steel 927%. il i Funeral Flowers Build Homes for Aged Swedes 'PRESIDENT HOOVER HAS PLANS TO AID GERMANY OUTLOOK POOR NEW POLICY IS FOR INDUSTRY, | ANNOUNCEDFOR GILBERT SAYS| LOCALFORESTS Packers Face Certain Lose(F lory Abbnts Read: R. Shepard, city clerk and Cana-| STOCKHOLM, June 20. — Tu dian National Steamship Agent, will | “Flower Home Fund” founded by leave for the south Monday on the Alma Hedin, sister of the explorer, Prince Henry. He will attend the|Dr. Hedin , is celebrating its tenth national convention of Benevolent i anniversary. and Protective Order of Elks to be! Its idea is that money ordinar- held in the Puget Sound metropolis i1y spent on flowers at. funerals early in July. |'should be contributed to homes for Leaving Seattle July 9, Mr, Shep- the aged. ard will return to Juneau’ on the Today there are two fine “flower Prince Henry. On that voyage homes” in Stockholm, with modern, north of the vessel all her passen-| COsy apartments, and six more are ger space has been reserved by nearing completion. The occupants Elks that will be in attendance at pay nominal rent and have life the Seattle convention. Among leases. those who have booked passage for! S the Alaska trip are the 150 mem-/ Beaumont, Tex., is to be head- bers of the Pennsylvania delega- quarters of the fi reserve chemi- tion, leal warfare battalion in the state A PRICE TEN CENTY U. S, EXECUTIVE HAS PROPOSALS TO HELP WORLD Announcement Is Made-in Washington of New Steps to Be Taken SPEED IN ECONOMIC RECOVERY INDICATED Moratorium for War Debts, Reparations, Etc., Pos- sible Suggestions WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20.— President Hoover plans to help Germany and these plans are awaited as the next step in combatting the world business slump. It is indicated the Presi- dent will hold conferences with political leaders before bringing maturity to his pro- posals which are said to be designed to speed economic improvement in the United States and abroad, especially in Germany. Ameng the steps some per- sisted might be taken, al- though the President did not so state specifically, are plans for a moratorium for war debts, reparations and loans, to help Germany through her financial status. CONFERENCES HELD WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20.—The plan for a world holiday on war debts and re- paations from ome to two years became uppermost in President Hoo v er’s confer- ence for relief of the Euro- " pean financial situation. Several other possible rem- edies are also being discussed as the President continued meetings with Senators and Congressmen ofsboth parties. He has imposed a strict in« jnnction of silence on the pro- posals he has in mind to strengthen Germany’s posi- tion and the present critical world-wide economic unsettle- ment. Reduction or cancellation of war debts has been ruled out by the President as one of the remedies because of op- position by Congress. WARM APPRECIATION BERLIN, June 20. — President Hoover’s assumption of an initiative attempt to assist Germany was greeted by the warmest apprecia- o |tion in German political cxrclgl as full significance of the somewhat meager press reports from Wash- ington, D. C., were realized There was a spirit of bouyancy, unknown in recent weeks, among the Cabinet members as they met. SENSATION CREATED LONDON, June 20, — President Hoover's statemént has created a sensation in London and added in- terest to the presence of American Secretary of Treasury Mellon. Newspapers . featured ‘the news under arresting headlines indicat- ing they considered that any action taken by the United States would have far-reaching consequences. PLAN FLIGHT ACROSS OCEAN ST. JOHNS, New Brunswick, June 20—Otto Hilig, photographer, and Holger Hoiriss, Danish immigrant, flew here from New Jersey last night, to take off on Monday for fun of it.” The two men are en= route to Germany. — - —— EDWARD NAGHEL HERE Edward Naghel, working with a months, arrived on the Northland for a short visit at home, LS survey force at Ketchikan for some E a flight to Denmark, “just for the